Blessing Headwear

Kalianna's blessing is coming up in July. I bought her the most beautiful little dress! I love it!! Well the dress came with this bonnet:I'm not sure I really like it, especially cause it looks so big on her. So please help me decide if I should have her wear the bonnet, a white headband, or just a simple little bow on her head. Vote for what you think would be the cutest in the right column. Please just vote once. Thanks for the help!

80's Party

Saturday night was Suzy's birthday party. The theme...80's. We had so much fun! Although it was pretty scary when we went shopping at Ross and had a good selection of 80's clothes to choose from. Honestly, whose idea was it to bring the 80's look back?! We didn't even have to buy anything for Kalianna's costume, she already had the leggings and headband and someone gave us her 80's style shirt as a gift shortly after she was born.

Our cute 80's baby
Stylin' mommy
Don't you just love Matt's ensemble?

Our little 80's family

Uncle Bryan
Me, Suzy and Breezy. Although we were all born in the 80's, we were never old enough to wear these clothes.

Suzy's doughnut birthday cake

Suzy opening presents

Playing one of the funnest games ever! Matt and I won the first time we played. Go team Carroll! Then for the next game we thought it would be fun to put all our names in a bowl to draw partnerships. Bryan and Matt won the second time around. Which means Matt rocks at this game! How you play is everyone gets four pieces of paper and they write down a word or a phrase or something on each of the pieces of paper. Some examples from our game were "Don't drink draino" or "99 red balloons" or "policeman handcuffing Suzy" or even just one word "water". Everyone folds their papers and puts them in a big bowl. Then you go around the circle and each partnership has one minute to get as many of the papers as they can. Round one: You try and get your partner to guess what is on the paper by describing it. No actions and no saying any of the words on the paper. Like Catchphrase. You keep going in a circle, each partnership getting one minute at a time until all the papers are gone. Count how many you got and then the papers all get re-folded and put back in the bowl. Round two: Each partnership gets one minute again, but this time there is no talking allowed. You can only act it out. When you run out of papers, count them up and put them back in the bowl again. Round three: You can only use ONE action or ONE word (can't be on the paper) to get your partner to guess what it is. The fun thing is this is your third time playing with the same papers so you have to remember what a phrase could be by one simple action. This game is so much fun!! If any of you have a party coming up, I totally recommend playing. And if you invite me, I will demonstrate how to play! =-)

Fun Adventures

I keep meaning to post about all the fun stuff we've done the last couple weekends. I have a lot of catching up to do, so I'll just give a brief overview.

Two Thursdays ago we celebrated my sister, Theresa's, birthday by going to her sister-in-law's dad's swimming pool. The weather decided to be a little chilly and the water was pretty cold, but we still had a blast! Kalianna looked adorable in her little swimsuit! The water was too cold, she didn't really care for me putting her feet in the water, so we sat by the edge and watched everyone else play. It was nice just sitting by the pool and enjoying a day with the girls. I love summer!Then two Saturdays ago we went to the air show at Hill Air Force Base with several people in my family. We were afraid the super loud jets (is there any other volume for a jet?) would scare Kalianna, but she just slept through them. I guess it pays to live in Layton since we hear the jets all the time anyway. It was cool to watch the different jets and planes; we had a good time!The first Sunday of the month we went to my cousin's daughter's baby blessing. Its always fun to get together with family and eat yummy food!

Then this last Friday night we had a picnic dinner with our friends Brian and Anna. It was perfect weather and after eating we (okay so I held Kalianna and watched, but everyone else participated) went long boarding in the church parking lot. Then we went back to our house and watched MST3K. Aka: Mystery Science Theater 3000. They are so funny! If you've never watched one, I recommend them for a good laugh! They are especially fun to watch with a big group of friends. We joked about making our own MST3K with the movie Twilight (Brian and Anna thought it was as dumb as I did).

Saturday we went to the Scottish festival at Thanksgiving Point with our friends Nate and Melissa and their son, Craig. We really enjoyed the music and watching the activities and competitions. We also had fun wandering the different booths and, of course, tasting the food. We didn't get very many pictures though.Sunday we had our monthly dinner/games with Matt's family and then Monday night we had a barbecue with my old roommate Stacy and her husband Spencer and two kids.

So we've had some pretty busy weekends lately! And there are more busy weekends in the future!

Best Book Ever

My mother-in-law gave me this book for mother's day and I've really been enjoying it! It has some really fun and cute ideas, as well as some really good perspective on being a mom. Written by an LDS mother/daughter team. Even if you don't learn anything from it, because you are already a perfect mom, its still a fun read. I highly recommend it to all!

Babies & Rap

Have you ever seen this episode of friends? Its one of my favorites. Pretty darn funny! Kalianna and I had an experience the other day that totally reminded me of this.
I was catching up on my blog reading while Kalianna sat next to me in her bouncy chair. I clicked on my friend Whitney's blog and music from her playlist started. It happened to be on the song "Dont Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls. Well Kalianna started smiling and talking like crazy and she was dancing in her chair. I thought it was funny. Well then I closed Whitney's blog and opened my friend Kim's where she had instrumental music playing from the Two Towers soundtrack. Kalianna started crying. No joke. Sorry Kim! I guess my girl is all about the rap and hip hop music. Nothing soft and instrumental for her!

Baby Piercings

How do you feel about babies who have their ears pierced? Would you ever pierce your baby girl's ears? I'm just curious because a few people have asked me if I plan on piercing Kalianna's ears. I think piercing a baby's ears if kind of mean. You cant say "This will only hurt for a minute" or "we're doing this to make you pretty". A baby is not going to understand. I also think a girl should be able to choose if she wants her ears pierced or not. And I don't think a child needs their ears pierced until they are old enough to care for it themselves. Matt and I have settled on age nine (its a long story why). But if Kalianna wants here ears pierced, I will take her for her ninth birthday. This is just my opinion. Everyone is entitled to their own. Whats yours?

Kalianna's Nursery

With Kalianna coming early, her nursery didn't quite get finished until she was about a month old. And then I forgot to post pictures of the finished product! So here is her beautiful Tinkerbell nursery.

This is on the door to her room

Here is a picture of her hutch

Here is the wall you are facing as you enter her room

The wall to your left complete with crib and Tinkerbell saying on the wall

Final wall with pictures from her in the hospital, her changing table, which I love! (if you remember that post from awhile back) and my glider that I also love (which was also a KSL find)

The wall directly to the right of the door when you first walk in her room is just her closet and I didn't think that would make a very interesting picture

Girl Question

Warning: The following post may be too uncomfortable for male eyes. Females will understand. Females who have had children, please read and comment! We all know that a woman bleeds for several weeks after giving birth. But how long is it supposed to last? My doctor told me I would probably bleed for 3-6 weeks following birth. Some women bleed for up to eight weeks. I had Kalianna nine and a half weeks ago and I am STILL bleeding! Its a pain in the rear-end! I want to be able to stop wearing pads eventually! How long did you bleed for? Should I be concerned yet? I was so glad to have had a c-section cause I was told you tend to bleed for less time than someone who delivered vaginally. But its been over nine weeks! This is getting ridicules.

2 Months

Kalianna at 1 weekKalianna at 1 month

Kalianna at 2 months

Kalianna is now two months old! At birth she was 6 lbs 2 oz and was 19 1/2" long. As of yesterday, she is 10 lbs 7 oz and is 22" long. She has been such an incredible blessing! She has learned to smile and is constantly happy. She is such a good baby; always calm and happy (unless she is hurt). She had her vaccinations yesterday and was smiling and cooing the entire time at the doctor's office...until they poked her. Then she cried the most pitiful cry ever. She is doing great at night, usually giving me a good 5-6 hour stretch between feedings. Last night she slept 8 hours. She is also doing much better at going to sleep on her own (we learned this trick from a great book Meredith gave me). She does great with "tummy time" and can keep her head up for quite a while. She got her daddy's skin and can not only pull off any color, but she looks beautiful in any color. Nothing fazes her, she is very go-with-the-flow (kinda like her parents). We took our first family trip to a friend's cabin over memorial weekend and she was fantastic! I love her more than anything and can't wait to continue watching her grow!

100th Post!

This is my 100th post! Woo-hoo! I was trying to think of ways to celebrate my blog's "birthday" and decided on sharing 100 of my favorite things (in no particular order):

1. My wonderful hubby, Matt
2. Kalianna
3. Sobaka
4. Kutse
5. My family
6. Friends
7. fresh baked chocolate chip cookies
8. writing
9. Curling up with a good book
10. Bubble baths
11. Homemade brownies (the box kind are just gross)
12. Traveling
13. New clothes
14. Fresh seafood
15. pedicures
16. Decorating my house
17. Movies
18. Gilmore girls (even though its gone, it was the best tv show ever)
19. Jones creme soda
20. Pink cars
21. Listening to big rainstorms at night (we don't get these in Utah)
22. Family scripture study
23. testimony meeting
24. Seeing my daughter smile
25. Cooking/baking
26. Taking pictures
27. Staying home
28. Rollercoasters
29. Long walks
30. Hot summer days
31. Beautiful fall trees
32. Swimming
33. Playing raquetball with Matt
34. Painting
35.Halloween
36. Parties
37. Singing
38. Jason Mraz (he's a newfound love)
39. Tomatoes from the garden
40. Country music
41. Musicals
42. Going to plays
43. Dangly earrings
44. Having someone play with my hair
45. Dressing up
46. Christmas
47. Valentines Day
48. The color pink
49. Tulips
50. Laying in the grass
51. Waterfalls
52. Chocolate
53. The beach
54. Tubing (behind a boat)
55. Sledding (not behind a boat)
56. Camping
57. Sailing
58. Homemade salsa
59. Mario party
60. Holding new babies
61. Buncha crunch
62. Watching CSI with Matt
63. Blogging
64. Heroes
65. Going shopping when you have money to spend
66. Having a clean house
67. Disneyland
68. Flowers that smell good
69. Laughing
70. Stuffed animals
71. Painting toenails
72. Flip-flops
73. My boots
74. Girl's days
75. Playing games
76. Warm sweaters
77. Trying new things
78. Matt's calves (soccer player...need I say more?)
79. Getting mail
80. Soft blankets
81. Change (most of the time)
82. Going out to dinner
83. Water fights
84. Western swing dancing (boy do I miss it!)
85. Being barefoot
86. Being spontaneous
87. Hiking
88. Watching Matt watch a stupid movie
89. Dressing Kalianna in cute outfits
90. Butterflies
91. Riding horses
92. Getting back in touch with old friends
93. The gospel
94. The east coast
95. Presents
96. Eating
97. Taking naps with my daughter
98. Ursula (my little computer)
99. Puppies
100. When people leave comments on my blog (hint hint)

Bragging Rights

Today I was able to fit back into my pre-pregnancy jeans without a problem! Woo-ho0!! I am VERY excited! No more maternity clothes for me! (Until next time at least) I've been taking Kalianna and Sobaka and Kutse on about a mile walk every day for several weeks now. And it looks like it paid off. And let me tell you, walking two dogs while pushing a stroller is no easy task. I've got some mad coordination skills! Still a couple pounds to go and I need to do some serious toning, but I fit in my pants again!